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by AnimalMuppet 824 days ago
I can tell you that the number is 0.1 in base 3, which defines the number precisely. Or I can tell you that it in base 10, it has an infinite representation, and all the digits are 3. There, I told you what they all are, and the universe has not ended yet.
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> Or I can tell you that it in base 10, it has an infinite representation,

Does it really have an infinite representation? I can't imagine an infinite representation fitting on a page. I'm pretty sure you're representing it as 1/3 or 0.(3). Neither of those representations are infinite. They're only a few characters really.

Nice.

Are these numbers the same: “0.5 in base10” and “0.1 in base2”?